The people, known as the Mound Builders, were Native Americans who lived in the area we now call Indiana over 3,000 years ago. We learn about their culture through the discovery of artifacts or objects buried beneath the ground. We call these people "Mound Builders" because they created large mounds or piles of earth. Often, their mounds were located near a river. The entire village worked together to build these mounds. Some of these mounds were as high as a two or three story building and took years to make. It is believed that mounds were built for different reasons. Some mounds served as places to bury the dead. Others were built perhaps as platforms for temples to worship their gods. Some mounds served as homes for the chiefs or were sometimes used for ceremonies and celebrations. The Mound Builder's homes were often located near or around these structures.
These Native Americans hunted animals, gathered nuts and berries, and grew crops like wild oats and corn. They made tools from wood, stone, and bone. They used a very hard and sharp rock called flint. In addition, they used clay found in the earth to make their pottery and jewelry.
However, sometime around the year 2000 b.c., written records from the time period tell of the arrival of a mythic warrior named 'Sesetuaha,' loosely translated as 'Man of the Moon.' He taught the Mound Builders how to fashion steel weapons and farm implements, and led them in battles against neighboring tribes to form an empire that spanned across the Wabash and Ohio river valleys.
The empire was not to last long after Sesetuaha's death. Fewer than two centuries after his passing, the tribes fractured and devolved back to their Stone Age roots. By the time that European settlers began to arrive, nothing remained of the Mound Builders civilization except the earthen mounds they had left behind.
-excerpt from "Mystery of the Mississippian Mound Builders, by David Raliegh Thornton."
Sesetuaha had been one of the greatest mysteries facing that sparsely populated clique that studied ancient Native American history. Who was he" Where did he come from' Where had he learned the advanced techniques of steelcraft that had given the Mound Builders such a huge advantage against their neighbors" So many questions....so few answers.
What wasn't known was that Sesetuaha came from another world, and that his true name was Ramius Taprobane. Exiled from his homeworld, he had been transported to Earth and integrated into one of the Mound Builder tribes of the lower Wabash Valley. Here he had taken a human wife and had three children....Amarav, Sesqahana, and Timekuaha.
On down through the generations Ramius's Ippon genes were passed. The descendants of Amarav became known as the Keepers, charged with the task of keeping watch over the descendants of Sesqahana. For it was through her that, one day, the Ippon genome would eventually become expressed into the Legacy Child....a being who possessed an Ippon-human hybrid genome....a being that the Keepers would have to mold into the greatest of the tau-jin warriors.
It took nearly 4000 years for this to happen. On March 20, 1986, Alec Michael Tuttle was born to Darlene and Emmit Tuttle. This is his story.
These Native Americans hunted animals, gathered nuts and berries, and grew crops like wild oats and corn. They made tools from wood, stone, and bone. They used a very hard and sharp rock called flint. In addition, they used clay found in the earth to make their pottery and jewelry.
However, sometime around the year 2000 b.c., written records from the time period tell of the arrival of a mythic warrior named 'Sesetuaha,' loosely translated as 'Man of the Moon.' He taught the Mound Builders how to fashion steel weapons and farm implements, and led them in battles against neighboring tribes to form an empire that spanned across the Wabash and Ohio river valleys.
The empire was not to last long after Sesetuaha's death. Fewer than two centuries after his passing, the tribes fractured and devolved back to their Stone Age roots. By the time that European settlers began to arrive, nothing remained of the Mound Builders civilization except the earthen mounds they had left behind.
-excerpt from "Mystery of the Mississippian Mound Builders, by David Raliegh Thornton."
Sesetuaha had been one of the greatest mysteries facing that sparsely populated clique that studied ancient Native American history. Who was he" Where did he come from' Where had he learned the advanced techniques of steelcraft that had given the Mound Builders such a huge advantage against their neighbors" So many questions....so few answers.
What wasn't known was that Sesetuaha came from another world, and that his true name was Ramius Taprobane. Exiled from his homeworld, he had been transported to Earth and integrated into one of the Mound Builder tribes of the lower Wabash Valley. Here he had taken a human wife and had three children....Amarav, Sesqahana, and Timekuaha.
On down through the generations Ramius's Ippon genes were passed. The descendants of Amarav became known as the Keepers, charged with the task of keeping watch over the descendants of Sesqahana. For it was through her that, one day, the Ippon genome would eventually become expressed into the Legacy Child....a being who possessed an Ippon-human hybrid genome....a being that the Keepers would have to mold into the greatest of the tau-jin warriors.
It took nearly 4000 years for this to happen. On March 20, 1986, Alec Michael Tuttle was born to Darlene and Emmit Tuttle. This is his story.